# List of British literary awards

This is a list of British literary awards.

## Literature in general

* Barbellion Prize, for ill and disabled writers
* Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, for a book which "presents new, important and challenging ideas"
* British Book Awards, the "Nibbies"
* Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread book awards)
* Guardian First Book Award
* International Rubery Book Award
* Jhalak Prize
* John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
* Ondaatje Prize
* Orwell Prize
* Portico Prize, for literature that "evokes the spirit of the North"
* Saltire Society Literary Awards
* Somerset Maugham Award
* Warwick Prize for Writing
* Wellcome Book Prize

## Fiction
### Fiction in general

* Bath Novel Award
* Bridport Prize
* Booker Prize (formerly the Man Booker Prize)
* Commonwealth Writers Prize (discontinued)
* Dundee International Book Prize (discontinued)
* Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (discontinued)
* Goldsmiths Prize
* Grindstone International Novel Prize
* Hawthornden Prize
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for fiction
* Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses
* Wales Book of the Year
* WH Smith Literary Award (discontinued)
* Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (discontinued)
* The Writers' Prize
* Women's Prize for Fiction

### Humour

* Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
* Comedy Women in Print Prize, the UK and Ireland's first comedy literary prize for women writers

### Crime

* CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, for a thriller
* CWA International Dagger, for a translated crime novel
* CWA New Blood Dagger, for a debut crime novel
* Dagger in the Library, for a crime writer, chosen by librarians
* Gold Dagger, for a crime novel
* McIlvanney Prize, for a Scottish crime novel
* Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

### First novel

* Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
* Betty Trask Prize and Awards
* Desmond Elliott Prize
* Ruth Hadden Memorial Award (discontinued)
* Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
* Waverton Good Read Award

### Historical

* Walter Scott Prize

### For young people

* Bath Children's Novel Award
* Branford Boase Award
* Stockport Children's Book Awards

### Poetry

* Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
* Arvon International Poetry Prize
* Bridport Poetry Prize
* Cholmondeley Award
* Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes
* Eric Gregory Award
* Forward Prizes for Poetry
* Gaisford Prize
* Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
* Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
* International Book & Pamphlet Competition
* Michael Marks Poetry Awards
* National Poetry Competition
* New Poets Prize
* Newdigate Prize
* Poetry Book Awards
* Poetry London Prize
* King's Gold Medal for Poetry
* T. S. Eliot Prize
* Ted Hughes Award
* Welsh Poetry Competition

### Speculative fiction

* Arthur C. Clarke Award
* British Fantasy Award
* BSFA Awards
* David Gemmell Legend Awards
* Kitschies

## Non-fiction

* Alan Ball Local History Awards
* Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
* Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing
* British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
* CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction
* Duff Cooper Prize
* Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for biography
* Orwell Prize for political writing
* Royal Society Insight investment Science Book Prize for popular science
* Samuel Johnson Prize
* Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, for biography or memoir
* Wainwright Prize for outdoors, nature, UK-based travel writing
* Whitfield Prize, for history
* William Hill Sports Book of the Year
* Wolfson History Prize, for history

## Other

* The Barker Book Awards - Celebrating Dogs in Literature
* Brunel University African Poetry Prize
* Caine Prize for African Fiction
* Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words)
* SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK
* Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book